Maskerade
This book from the Witches sequence is a parody of The Phantom of the Opera – both the original novel and Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical. As you may know the original West End Phantom was played by Michael Crawford. His big breakthrough in the UK was playing the hapless boy-man Frank Spencer. One of the characters in this book is basically Frank Spencer but from Ankh-Morpork.
This is middling Discworld. It’s still very entertaining but doesn’t hit the astonishing heights of the best of the series.
Obviously I’d still highly recommend that – if you haven’t already – get started reading the complete Discworld as soon as you can. As I’ve said before on this blog and elsewhere – no writer has informed my thinking in the same way as Pratchett has and I laughed my head off at the same time.